See also:

• SPHINX (Gr. Q¢lyyea', to draw tight, squeeze)

SPHINX (Gr. Q¢lyyea', to draw tight, squeeze)  , the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek name for a See also:

• COMPOUND
• COMPOUND (from Lat. componere, to combine or put together)

compound creature with See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion's See also:

• BODY

body and human See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head . The Greek See also:

• SPHINX (Gr. Q¢lyyea', to draw tight, squeeze)

sphinx had wings and See also:

• FEMALE

female bust, and the male sphinx of See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt (wingless) is distinguished as " androsphinx " by See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus . The type perhaps originated in Egypt, where. figures of gods with human bodies and See also:

• ANIMAL
• ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul)

animal heads, and compound animal forms like the gryphon were numerous from very See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early times . The sphinx, however, is a perfectly clear and well-defined type there, and is usually recumbent . The mostcelebrated example is the See also:

• GREAT

Great Sphinx of Giza, 189 ft. See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long, a See also:

• ROCK
• ROCK (O.Fr. rake, Sp. rota, Ital. rocca; possibly from a Lat. form rupica, from rupes, rock)
• ROCK, DANIEL (1799–187t)

rock carved into this shape, and from its situation likely to be a See also:

• WORK

work of the IVth See also:

• DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

Dynasty . The See also:

• PATTERN

pattern of the See also:

• WIG (short for " periwig," an alternative form of " peruke," Fr. perruque; cf. Span. peluca; conjecturally derived from Lat. pilus)

wig-lappets has been quoted to prove that it See also:

• DATES

dates from the XIlth Dynasty, but it is said that the See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar disposition of the uraeus on its forehead agrees with that in the earliest sculptures . The See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face looks out due eastward from the See also:

• PYRAMID

pyramid See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field over the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile valley, and, according to the See also:

• INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions of the XVIIIth Dynasty in the See also:

• SHRINE (Lat. scrinium, a case or chest for books, hence a casket; from scribere, to write, Fr. ecrin, Ital. scrigno)

shrine between the paws, it represented the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun-See also:

• GOD

god Harmachis . Sphinxes of See also:

• GRANITE (adapted from the Ital. granite, grained; Lat. granum, grain)

granite, &c., occur of the XIIth Dynasty and later . A pair from Tanis are attributed by See also:

• FLINDERS, MATTHEW (1774-1814)

Flinders See also:

• PETRIE, GEORGE (179o-1866)
• PETRIE, WILLIAM MATTHEW FLINDERS (1853– )

Petrie to Pepi I. of the VIth Dynasty . The heads of the sphinxes are royal portraits, and apparently they are intended to represent the See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the reigning See also:

• PHARAOH (Par'oh)

Pharaoh . The See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king as a sphinx, in certain religious scenes, makes offerings to deities; and elsewhere he tears his enemies in pieces . In the Saite See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period accordingly the figure of the sphinx was used as a hieroglyph for neb, " See also:

• MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master," " See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

lord." Recumbent sphinxes were especially used in pairs, to guard the approach to a See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple, and it may be conjectured that the Great Sphinx was sculptured at Giza to guard the entrance of the Nile valley .

The name of the sphinx in See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian was Hu . The great temple avenues at See also:

• THEBES (anciently &Oat, Thebae, or in poetry sometimes Oif3a, in modern Greek Phiva, or, according to the corrected pronunciation, Thivae)
• THEBES (e 3a1)
• THEBES, ROMANCE OF

Thebes are lined with recumbent rams, true sphinxes (a few See also:

• LATE

late instances), and with the so-called criosphinxes or See also:

• RAM
• RAM, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE (18o4-1865)

ram-sphinxes, having lion bodies and heads of the sacred animal of See also:

• AMMON
• AMMON, CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON (1766—185o)

Ammon . A See also:

• FALCON
• FALCON (Lat. Falco;' Fr. Faucon; Teutonic, Falk or Valken)

falcon-headed sphinx was medicated to Harmachis in the temple of See also:

• ABU

Abu Simbel, and is occasionally found in sculptures representing the king as Horns, or Mont, the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war-god . It is distinguishable from the gryphon only by the See also:

• ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of wings . W . M . F . Petrie, See also:

• HISTORY

History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the XVItk Dynasty, p . 51, &c.; L . Borchardt, " Das Alter der grossen Sphinx," in Sstzungsberschte of the See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy (1897), p . 952 . See also:

• BAEDEKER, KARL (1801–1859)

Baedeker's Egypt; Prisse d'Avennes, Histoire de See also:

• PART

Part egyptiere (See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris, 1878), vol. ii. pl .

26., 35, See also:

• TEXT (Lat. textum, woven fabric, from texere, to weave)

text, pp . 405, 410 . (F . LL . G.) From Egypt the figure of the sphinx passed to See also:

• ASSYRIA

Assyria, where it appears with a bearded male head on cylinders; the female sphinx, lying down and furnished with wings, is first found in the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace of Esar-haddon (7th cent . B.C.) . Sphinxes have been found in See also:

• PHOENICIA

Phoenicia, one at least being winged and another bearded . They are copies of the Egyptian, both in See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form and posture, wearing the pshent and the uraeus, but distinguished by having the See also:

• ASSYRIAN

Assyrian wings . The sphinx is See also:

• COMMON

common on See also:

• PERSIAN
• PERSIAN, SYRIAN, EGYPTIAN AND TURKISH

Persian gems, and the representations are finely executed . On a Persian See also:

• INTAGLIO (an Ital. word, from intagliare, to incise, cut into)

intaglio are two sphinxes face to face, each wearing a See also:

• TIARA (Gr. -papa)

tiara and guarding a sacred plant which is seen between them; but the sphinx, whether of the Egyptian or the Assyrian type, is not found in Persian sculptures (See also:

• PERROT, SIR JOHN (c. 1S27–1592)

Perrot and Chipiez, History of See also:

• ART

Art in See also:

• PERSIA

Persia, Eng. trans., See also:

• LONDON

London, 1892) . In See also:

• ASIA

Asia See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

Minor the See also:

• OLDEST

oldest examples are the Hittite sphinxes of See also:

• EUYUK

Euyuk . They are Egyptian sphinxes treated in' the Assyrian See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style .

They are not recumbent, and the See also:

• HAIR (a word common to Teutonic languages)

hair falling from the head is curled, not straight, as in the true Egyptian sphinx . An See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient female sphinx, but wingless, stands on the sacred road near See also:

• MILETUS (mod. Palatia)

Miletus . Sphinxes of the usual Greek type are represented seated on each See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of two doorways in an ancient See also:

• FRIEZE

frieze found by See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles Fellowes at See also:

• XANTHUS (mod. Gunuk)

Xanthus in See also:

• LYCIA

Lycia, and now in the See also:

• BRITISH

British Museum . The same type appears on the early sculptures of the See also:

• HALF

half-Greek, half-See also:

• ORIENTAL

Oriental temple at See also:

• ASSUS [mod. Behram]

Assus . In the early art of See also:

• CYPRUS
• CYPRUS, CHURCH OF

Cyprus--the half-way See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house between Asia and See also:

• GREECE

Greece—sphinxes of this type are not uncommon . On the other See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, on a See also:

• GEM (Lat. gemma, a bud,—from the root gen, meaning " to produce,"—or precious stone; in the latter sense the Greek term is > d>os)
• GEM, ARTIFICIAL

gem of Phoenician style found at Curium in Cyprus there appear two male (bearded) sphinxes, with the See also:

• TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
• TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )

tree of See also:

• LIFE

life between them.' ' With regard to Greece proper, in the third See also:

• TOMB (Gr. Tuµ/3a, Tuµ(3os, probably allied to Lat. tumulus, literally a swelling, tumere, to swell)

tomb on the See also:

• ACROPOLIS (Gr. aKpos, top, a6)Xts, city)

acropolis of See also:

• MYCENAE

Mycenae were found six small See also:

• GOLDEN

golden sphinxes; they are beardless, but the See also:

• SEX (Lat. sexes; possibly connected with secure, to cut)

sex is doubtful . The bust is not that of a woman, though the head and face are distinctly feminine . A shallow cap covers the head, and from the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle of it there is always a sort of tail or plume, blown back by the See also:

• WIND
• WIND (a common Teut. word, cognate with Skt. vats, Lat. ventus, cf. " weather," to be of course distinguished from to " wind," to coil or twist, O.Eng. windan, cf. "wander," "wend," &c.)

wind . It is curious that, though the sphinx (as also the gryphon) were thus common in the Mycenaean period, the words a4iyt and ypi4/s do not occur in See also:

• HOMER, WINSLOW (1836-191o)

Homer . Helbig suggested that the word KUwv (See also:

• DOG

dog), which is connected with the sphinx in the tragedians, was used by Homer for the sphinx, but this theory has not met with See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• ACCEPTANCE (Lat. acceptare, frequentative form of accipere, to receive)

acceptance . In the ancient tomb discovered in 1877 at Spata near See also:

• ATHENS
• ATHENS ['AN vat, Athenae, modem colloquial Greek `Ath va]

Athens (which represents a kindred but somewhat later art than the tombs at Mycenae) were found female winged sphinxes carved in See also:

• IVORY (Fr. ivoire, Lat. ebur)
• IVORY, SIR JAMES (1765-1842)

ivory or See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone . Sphinxes on See also:

• GLASS
• GLASS (O.E. glees, cf. Ger. Glas, perhaps derived from an old Teutonic root gla-, a variant of glo-, having the general sense of shining, cf. " glare," " glow ")
• GLASS, STAINED

glass plates have been found in See also:

• GRAVES, ALFRED PERCEVAL (1846— )

graves at Camirus in See also:

• RHODES
• RHODES, CECIL JOHN (1853-1902)
• RHODES, JAMES FORD

Rhodes and on See also:

• GOLD
• GOLD [symbol Au, atomic weight 195.7(H = 1),197.2(0 =16)]

gold plates in See also:

• CRIMEAN

Crimean graves .

Sphinxes were represented on the See also:

• THRONE

throne of See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo at Amyclae and on the metopes at See also:

• SELINUS (EeXsvoiis)

Selinus; in the best period of Greek art a sphinx was sculptured on the See also:

• HELMET (from an obsolete diminutive of O. Fr. helme, mod. heaume; the English word is " helm," as in O. Eng., Dutch and Ger.; all are from the Teutonic base hal-, pre-Teut. kal-, to cover; cf. Lat. celare, to hide, Eng. " hell," &c.)

helmet of the statue of See also:

• ATHENA (the Attic form of the Homeric Athene, also called Athenaia, Pallas Athene, Pallas)

Athena in the See also:

• PARTHENON (HapOevwv)

Parthenon at Athens; and sphinxes carrying off See also:

• CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO

children were sculptured on the front feet of the throne of See also:

• ZEUS

Zeus at See also:

• OLYMPIA

Olympia . There is also an Athenian See also:

• VASE
• VASE (through Fr. from Lat. vas, a vessel, pl. vasa, of which the singular vasum is rarely found; the ultimate root is probably was-, to cover, seen in Lat: vestis, clothing, Eng. " vest," Gr. to-th c, and also in " wear," of garments)

vase from See also:

• CAPUA (anc. Casilinum;, a town and archiepiscopal see of Campania, Italy, in the province of Caserta, 7 M. W. by rail from the town oI Caserta. Pop. (1901) 14
• CAPUA (mod. S. Maria di Capua Vetere)

Capua in the form of a sphinx painted See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white . It is winged, and the face is smooth and delicate in See also:

• CONTOUR

contour . Though Greek sphinxes are in general winged, there have been found in See also:

• BOEOTIA

Boeotia terra-See also:

• COTTA
• COTTA, BERNHARD VON (1808—1879)
• COTTA, GAIUS AURELIUS (c. 124—73 B.c.)

cotta figures of wingless sphinxes . See also:

• ROMAN

Roman sphinxes of a late period have sometimes a See also:

• MAN
• MAN, ISLE OF (anc. Mona)

man's, sometimes a woman's head with an See also:

• ASP ( Vipera aspis)

asp on the forehead . An indefinable man-lion (See also:

• NARA

nara sinks) represents the See also:

• FOURTH

fourth See also:

• AVATAR

avatar of the See also:

• INDIAN

Indian See also:

• VISHNU (Sanskrit, " the worker," from root vish, "to work ")

Vishnu, and is found also among the Tibetans . In Greek See also:

• MYTHOLOGY

mythology the most famous sphinx was that of Thebes in Boeotia, first mentioned by See also:

• HESIOD

Hesiod (Theo* . 326), who calls her the daughter of Orthus and See also:

• CHIMAERA

Chimaera . According to See also:

• APOLLONIUS

Apollonius (iii . 5, 8), she was the daughter of See also:

• TYPHON (TYPHAON, TYPHOEUS)

Typhon and See also:

• ECHIDNA, or PORCUPINE

Echidna, and had the face of a woman, the feet and tail of a lion and the wings of a See also:

• BIRD

bird . She dwelt at the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east corner of See also:

• LAKE
• LAKE, GERARD LAKE, 1ST VISCOUNT (1744-1808)

Lake Copais on a bald rocky See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain called Phicium (mod . Fagas), which was derived from See also:

• FIT

Fit, the Aeolic form of o•/si'y .

The See also:

• MUSES, THE (Gr. Mo6o-at, the thinkers)

Muses taught her a riddle and the Thebans had to guess it . Whenever they failed she carried one of them off and devoured him . The riddle was this: " What is that which is four-footed, . three-footed, and two-footed?" At last See also:

• OEDIPUS (OiSiirovs, O16tir63i7s, Wines, from Gr. ot&eiv swell, and gobs foot, i.e. " the swollen-footed ")

Oedipus guessed correctly that it was man; for the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child crawls on hands and feet, the adult walks upright, and the old man supports his steps with a stick . Then the sphinx threw herself down from the mountain . The See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story of the sphinx's riddle first occurs in the Greek tragedians . Milchhofer believes that the story was a See also:

• MERE
• MERE, ADALBERT (1838-1909)

mere invention of Greek See also:

• FANCY (a shortened form, dating from the 15th century, of " fantasy," which is derived through the O. Fr. fantasie, modern fantaisie. from the Latinized form of the Gr. cbavraoia, Oavrai'ecv, Oat Pais, to show)

fancy, an See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to interpret the mysterious figure which Greek art had borrowed from the East . On the other hand, he holds that the destroying nature of .the sphinx was much older, and he refers to instances in both Egyptian and Greek art where a sphinx is seen seizing and See also:

• STANDING

standing upon a man . And, whereas the Theban See also:

• LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend is but sparingly illustrated in Greek art, the figure of the sphinx appears more commonly on tombs, sculptured either in the See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round or in See also:

• RELIEF

relief . From this Milchhofer seems to infer that the, sphinx was a See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol of See also:

• DEATH

death . Among the remains of the Mayan culture in See also:

• YUCATAN

Yucatan are found examples of sphinxes, male and female, which are not unlike those of Egypt and Asia Minor . Milchhofer, in Mitth. d. deulsch. archdol . Instil. in Athen (1879), p .

46 se ; J . Ilberg, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Sphinx in der griechischen See also:

• SAGE, RUSSELL (1816-1906)

Sage and Kunst (1895); Sir R . C. ebb's edition of See also:

• SOPHOCLES (495-406 B.c.)

Sophocles, Oed . Tyrann., app., See also:

• NOTE
• NOTE (Lat. nota, mark, sign, from noscere, to know)

note 12 . (J . M . M.) SPIDER-See also:

• MONKEY

MONKEY, the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of a See also:

• GROUP

group of tropical See also:

• AMERICAN

American monkeys known to the natives of See also:

• BRAZIL
• BRAZIL, or BRASIL

Brazil by the name coaita, and to zoologists as Ateles, in allusion to the imperfectly-See also:

• DEVELOPED

developed thumb . They take their English name from the slimness of the body, the elongated limbs, and the long tail, the under See also:

• SURFACE

surface of the prehensile extremity of which is naked . The thumb is either rudimentary or wanting, so that the hands See also:

• ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act merely as hooks in climbing . The absence of woolly under-See also:

• FUR (connected with O. Fr. forre, a sheath or case; so " an outer covering ")

fur, the less compressed nails, and the broader See also:

• PARTITION

partition between the nostrils distinguishes them from the woolly spider-monkeys (Brachyteles.) The See also:

• SPECIES

species are numerous, and the most active and thoroughly arboreal of all American monkeys . The prehensile tail is employed not only as a means of suspension, but also to convey See also:

• FOOD
• FOOD (like the verb " to feed," from a Teutonic root, whence O. Eng. foda; cf. " fodder "; connected with Gr. lrareicOae, to feed)

food to the mouth . These monkeys generally go about in small parties, high up in the trees; and, like the other members of the group, are comparatively silent .

Their food consists chiefly of fruits and leaves .